Niels Bohr's Complementarity Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction /

• Main Author: Katsumori, Makoto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 286
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Modern philosophy.; Philosophy and science.; Philosophy of Science.; Modern Philosophy.; History of Science.

This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural and historical complexity of th...

Table of Contents:

•  Bohr and the Development of Quantum Theory: A Brief Review.- An Overview of Bohr’s  Complementarity.-  Prior Interpretations of Complementarity 
• A Philosophical-Historical Analysis of Complementarity.- Intersections with Hermeneutic Philosophy.-  Intersections with Derridean Deconstruction.-  Concluding Remarks 
• References.                                                                                                                                                                                                                             .